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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 19.

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COMMUNICATIONS.

By E. Everts

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another."

From Bro. Everts.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: My heart is enlarged towards you. How exceedingly interesting is the little moment that we occupy. Have patriarchs and prophets, kings and wise men, desired to see these things that we see, and hear those things that we hear, and have died without it?
On every hand, things animate and inanimate, bespeak Messiah near. The long dark wintry night of toil and wo of the blighting curse, the painful wages of disobedience, is almost past; the voice of the turtle of peace, will soon be heard. But O when we think of that moment, that our next step takes hold of, my whole being, cries out, Who will be able to stand?
The prophets of God describe the day before us as one of the most gloomy and terrific, that mortals ever beheld. Joel says, "The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished." Joel i, 11, 12.
Jeremiah describes the kingdoms and nations of earth, and the whole world drunken with the wine cup of God's fury: "Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind from the coasts of the earth. And the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth, even to the other end of the earth; they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground." "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be delivered out of it." Jer. xxx, 7; xxv, 32, 33.
Yes, thank the Lord, all that wrestle like Jacob, and say, I will not let thee go except the Lord bless, shall be delivered out of it.
My dear brethren, I daily think of you, scattered as you are, and think, Do you almost give up? Do you cry out, Can I ever go through? Who is sufficient for these things?
My dear brethren, my dear sisters, faint not now,thy reward will quickly be given. "The Lord careth for thee." "The Lord has set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people." "Jacob's face shall not now wax pale." Trust in the Lord, for in him is everlasting strength.
O let us be zealous and repent. O may our blessed Lord help us to make a new effort; the last effort; a whole and an entire consecration. The work if put forth in faith in the Lord, will ensure certain victory.
The solemn hour of judgment is come. The great work of our great High Priest in the heavenly Sanctuary, that the Lord pitched, not man, of blotting out the sins of all that "sigh and cry for the abomination that is done in the land," has come.
Call to mind your help. Peter says, "You are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Pet. i, 5. Then trust in the Lord; for "if the Lord be for us who can be against us?" "He is a very present help in trouble." Remember how near the Lord was to Elisha when the wicked host of chariots and horses and enemy compassed the city about where he was. How despair seized his servant, and when he cried out, "Alas, my master! how shall we do?" "Elisha answered, Fear not; they that be with us are more than they that be with them."
"Elisha prayed; and the Lord opened the young man's eyes, and he saw; and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." 2 Kings vi, 15, 17. "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy mount." "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling; because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation. Ps. lxviii, 17; lix, 8-10; Heb. i, 14. "In the days of famine the upright shall be satisfied; bread shall be given him; his water shall be sure." As I look over the exceeding great and precious promises of the Lord, and the willingness, yea, the anxiety, of the Lord to bestow upon his needy children, and the adaptedness of them to our every want, I call on my whole being to hope in God.
I try to think on these things; I try to claim these promises through the worthy name of Jesus; I try to heed the faithful and true Witness, to put forth zeal in turning to the Lord, and give all that I may buy the gold tried in the fire, and white raiment and eye-salve.
I praise the Lord that I have enjoyed some of the most sweet, heavenly seasons, and have seen more of the presence of the Lord, since the thrilling, humbling, and most solemn message to the Laodicean church has stirred the remnant, that I have witnessed since 1844. I have no doubt but the Lord is fitting up the remnant for the last solemn work for the world. How solemn! The end is come! A moment and all is over. Our entreaties, our dear friends will soon hear no more. Lord, help us to be in earnest. I will believe the Lord will be entreated to do those things for us.
Joel says, And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered; for in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and in the REMNANT whom the Lord shall call. E. EVERTS. Round Grove, Ills., Feb. 16th, 1857